Patient Details - Other Tab  

This screen shows you miscellaneous information about this patient.

 

 

You can enter details if you know them, but this is optional. You can also make your own notes about the patient if you want.

Other medication items

This option allows you to add references to any OTC medicines or complementary preparations that the patient may be taking.

• Click the Add product button to select an OTC product from the main product file.

• Click the Add free text button to enter a product that you cannot find in the main product file.

• If a patient informs you that are no longer using any of these medication items, highlight the item and click the Not using button that will become enabled.

• Any item that is set to Not using can be reversed to Using. Highlight a Not using item and click the Using button that will become enabled.

Notes

This area is purely for any text notes you wish to append

Options

Check the boxes as appropriate for the patient.

• Child resistant container

• Form registered

If you indicate that child resistant containers are not required for a particular patient, when any labels are printed, the patient's name is prefaced by an asterisk e.g. *Mr Bill Beech.

If you have a patient registration process in your pharmacy, for example a new patient is given a questionnaire to complete, this check box can be used to indicate that this has been done.

• Large labels required

• Drug dependency

• Interaction search period

Large print labels  

A patient with a visual impairment may be able to identify their medication more easily if a large print label is attached.

 

This is achieved by the production of a second set or series of labels replicating the content of a standard label(s), but in large print.

 

Typically, the second "label" will actually be several labels depending on the overall length of the text.

 

In normal circumstances, the labels would not be satisfactory, but the first large print label will typically show the medication name, possibly printed over two or more lines, which will identify the medication for the recipient.

 

The first standard size print label should still be attached to the packaging as normal and, packaging surface area permitting, when affixed the second label with the medication name in large print could be a valuable identifier for a patient with visual difficulties.

 

Any unwanted labels should be safely discarded.

 

Check the Large labels required box to switch this on for the named patient.

 

Targeted MUR prompting

If a patient has previously declined an MUR, it will be recorded in their record that further prompts have been suspended. This avoids patients being asked repeatedly about MURs. There are several different approaches to this. And whichever is used, it is possible to reverse the suspended status once it has been applied.

If a patient is due for an annual follow-up MUR, the system will produce an MUR due label.

On a patient-by-patient basis, you can suspend these recall labels. Check Suspend recall labels. Alternatively press &.

Similarly, you can remove the suspension by unchecking  Suspend recall labels. Alternatively, press & again.

 

Furthermore, you can make a short term suspension of the recall label that will expire after three months.

Check Snooze labels. Alternatively press &.

The rationale for the three month "snooze" option is that the patient may just be busy at the time, or their situation changed in three months and they could be to be asked again.

When selected, the date is initially set to three months on from today's date,, after which it resets to unchecked. This will expire automatically on the date shown. Alternatively press & again to remove the restriction.

 

Finally, you can suspend or allow targeted MUR prompts for a particular patient.

Check Suspend targeted MUR prompts to apply the restriction. Alternatively press &.

 

Similarly, you can remove the suspension by unchecking Suspend targeted MUR prompts. Alternatively press & again.

Equally, the suspended status could be applied independently of the prompt that appears whilst dispensing.

 

 

If any of these options is selected, you will not get a prompt for an MUR when dispensing, so long as other criteria are met e.g. the snooze date has not been reached. Furthermore, when any of these options is selected

the patient will not been seen as a candidate for inclusion in the  Potential candidate MUR report

 

Adverse drug reactions

This area is purely for any text notes you wish to append where the patient has reported a possible adverse reaction to a medication item. 

 

The selection of any options for this patient will show the corresponding icon at the base of the Dispensary tab when you are dispensing.

 

 

See Icons.